Wasmer Edge: 6x Faster Python on WebAssembly at the Edge
2025-09-25
Wasmer Edge Beta now boasts full Python support, powered by WebAssembly and WASIX. This release is significantly faster than previous iterations, even surpassing the py2wasm project. Now you can run frameworks like FastAPI, Streamlit, Django, and LangChain directly on Wasmer and Wasmer Edge. This was achieved by adding dynamic linking, libffi support, improving sockets and threading, and releasing a custom Python Package Index with many popular native libraries. Compared to Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda, Wasmer Edge offers superior speed, compatibility, and affordability, making it ideal for AI workloads and APIs at the edge.
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